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TN's U-turn on Rajiv’s killer Nalini
TN's U-turn on Rajiv’s killer Nalini, Rajiv Gandhi, Nalini Sriharan, Rajiv Gandhi's Killers Case. Nalini, the wife of another convict Murugan, was spared the death sentence in 2000 on the intervention of Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Chennai: Exactly a week before announcing that it would free all seven people convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Tamil Nadu had opposed parole for one of them, Nalini Sriharan.
Based on police inputs, the state government told a court last Tuesday that granting a month's parole to Nalini, who is in prison in Vellore, would cause a law and order problem.
Nalini, the wife of another convict Murugan, was spared the death sentence in 2000 on the intervention of Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Congress president Sonia Gandhi. She had asked for a month's parole in January to visit her 90-year-old father in Ambalavanapuram in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district. She reportedly said in her 22 years in prison, she had taken just a three-day break to attend her brother's wedding nine years ago, and returned the same day she left.
The Tamil Nadu government's objection to her request in court was reportedly based on the view of jail officials and the state police that political leaders might try to meet her in the thickly forested region and there could be security worries. This Tuesday, in a move that bespoke populism, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa declared that her government would release all the convicts, even using its own powers to do so if the Centre did not respond.
